Remember all the people warning you never to look directly at the sun because you will go blind. Well believe me when I say do not look into the barrel of this gun because it will make you blind. This DIY Pulse Laser Gun was built by Patrick Priebe who you might remember from the Iron Man Repulsor Light Laser Glove Project. This is what you get when you convert
Taking things apart and making them better always gives me a great feeling. Have a look at this Teddy Ruxpin Robot that DJ Sures put together. Reminds me of the Furby hacks we saw years ago. You can see that the Teddy Ruxpin has the typical inexpensive mechanical bits that make all of these toys come to life. With the skin pulled off this thing looks a bit freaky. “I
Hack A Day had a cool contest where the goal was to build a Walking Santa. You can see the entries and winners here. There were lots of cool hacks but I like this one by Adam Outler the best. An Arduino controls the new Santa robot and some transistors are used to power the existing Santa motors. The new and improved Santa looks a bit mad but he has
We have seen the AR Drone here before. This is the quadcopter that can be flown around using the WiFi from your iPhone, iPad or an iPod Touch. The accelerometers in the Apple product are used to fly the device around, you simply tip it in the direction you would like the AR Drone to fly. The quadcopter has a sophisticated onboard processor which allows the AR Drone to maintain
Steve Doubek is a Prototype and Design program instructor at the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Have a look at the video for a tour of the dream shop where the Wall-e robots were built. The two robots were part of a 9 month build where the 14 students were split into two groups and each had full creative control over their robot, that’s why the two robots turned out quite
If you have one of these View-Masters you might want to bring it into the modern day, have a look at this LCD Screen Hacked View-Master by Hackerconsortium. Thanks Tuttle “Long gone are the days of light shining through celluloid images on a disk… Long gone! Why this little feller here has Two, count them, 2 Colby 1.5 inch digital key chain picture frames lined up with each lens to
Spiralbrain is building a cool robot that can see what is around it by using IR. The robot base is a RP5 Tracked Chassis which looks to be quite a versatile robotic platform. Is it just me or does it sound like a small angry dog when it slowly growls and inches forward, then gets frightened and lurches back. 🙂 The PIC 18F4550 code is sure to be available when
